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So he recovered again, he stayed active and ate plenty the whole time he was swollen and finally the white chunk disappeared and the swelling went down. This morning he won't eat, no swelling but when I look reeeally closely I can see a couple little stringy white pieces of "cob web" coming from...

Hi, My 3 year old make betta has dropsy, I suspected it at first so treated him with some Kanaplex and he recovered for about a week but then the symptoms persisted. He hasn't responded to the meds this second time and now his abdomen is swelling up on top of the pinecone scales he's been slowly...

One more pic. Really hard to get a good one, it looks like a white tip of a toothpick or something sticking up from between his scales. Doesn't sound that much like hexamita as I haven't noticed his color getting darker or any stringy, mucusy like feces. He did go through a period of not eating...

Another attempt at a current pic of the weird white spot on the swollen area

Anyone?? Hi again. Does anyone have ANY idea about this? The swelling eventually went down and he started behaving and eating normally for about a week and then one morning his face was swollen again with another white cobweb looking chunk on the end of the swollen bump. Started him on another...

Still swollen but trying to eat Hi! His face looks the same, still swollen but he's much more active now. Swimming around, responsive to when I come near his bowl. He's also trying to eat now when before he showed no interest. He will suck up a piece of food, crunch it a couple times then spit...

Another pic Can see what I mean about his scales better in this one I think, especially if you can zoom in a little. Also his gills maybe seem a bit inflamed?

Hi! I have a betta fish that was experiencing tail rot, he'd had it before so I treated him with the same medicine and he got better. Then a couple days later he suddenly had a swollen..forehead for lack of a better word. He had always been a keen eater and very active swimmer, now he just...

It is hard to get a good pic! I do think however that the pic I posted shows what I'm talking about pretty clearly, how the edge of his tail and bottom fins are sort of curling over at the very edges. His fins were smooth all the way to the ends when I got him, now they're a bit curled or...

Yeah I figured people would say that. I don't have a tank, don't have means to get a tank nor care for one, and as I said have had several bettas in this same bowl in the past without problems. He was in a 2 inch cube jar at the petstore so although perhaps a 1.5 gallon bowl is not the most...

Hi everyone, I'm by no means any kind of fish expert, I've had severa betta fish through my teen years, almost always just in 1.5 gallon bowls and they've always done fine and lived quite a long time. I purchased my first betta in years from Petsmart about 3 months ago maybe, he is living in...